Bram Stoker: Resurrecting the Vampire 

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My married surname is Stoker and my husband is from Belfast. I work as an ambulance technician and after a particularly difficult run of shifts my team leader decided I would henceforth be known as Bram..... The master of horror and fear.... 6 years later the nickname is still sticking around.....

You couldn't have uploaded this at a better time! I'm currently writing my English essay on Bram Stoker's Dracula and came on RU-vid to procrastinate. You're a good man.

Fun Fact: as a theatre manager he introduced the practice of numbered seats which, in turn, allowed him to sell annual subscriptions.

Have to say being Irish and living in such a small country, the Author's and Poet's like Joyce, Heaney, Beckett,Yeates, Wilde, Swift,Stoker and G.B Shaw and many others always amazes me and makes me proud.

The 1922 movie 'Nosferatu' is a masterpiece. A superb example of early cinema. It is also a version of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', moved from England to Germany. This was quickly noticed by Stoker's widow, who, as you can imagine, was not best pleased. She managed to get a legal case against the film makers for infringement of copyright, and won her case, which meant that every copy of the film was to be collected... and destroyed. Luckily, a print of the movie was saved, and, over the years copies were made. Whilst I love this movie to bits, I've never found it scary - it is deeply, deeply creepy, though, and beautifully made and shot. The end could not be improved with CGI. It's perfect as it is. Bram Stoker's short stories, like 'Dracula's Guest'(originally written as the introduction to Dracula), 'The Squaw', 'The Judge's House', 'The Coming Of Abel Behenna', are superb, properly unpleasant, and well worth reading. 'The Jewel Of Seven Stars' is great, but grim (the American edition had a happy ending tacked onto it, much to Stoker's annoyance - it is awful, and adds nothing), and has been filmed twice - as 'Blood From The Mummy's Tomb' (1971), and 'The Awakening' (1980). Both are 'guilty pleasure' movies of mine.

I had the huge honour of meeting Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew, Dacre Stoker, during his book talk and booksigning for 'Dracul' a year ago... I also met Bram Stoker's great-grandson there on the day, too... They BOTH signed my copy!!! :D

Yay new bio, I'm stoked.

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"I have crossed oceans of time to find you." Bram Stoker

I went to Trinity College Dublin, and also worked at the Lyceum Theatre👌 Love that I happened to follow in Bram’s footsteps. Dracula is one of my favourite books.

Ive read the book four times. Just as lord of the rings, my favorite part is the early parts of the book. The atmosphere is so eerie and is extremely immersive!! Love the book. Must read!!!

It was my go to book in my teens, I took it everywhere and must have re read it dozens of times, this was the pre goth era of the 70s. Thank you for an excellent bio of this giant of literature.

Stoker's great great grand nephew came to my university to talk about Bram's life and his process in writing Dracula. He's been going to libraries for years to find books that might have inspired him to write it, finding little notes in them and things he underlined. It was very interesting to see his thought process. In his notes, he wrote the name 'Dracula' over and over again so he wouldn't forget it after he found out it meant 'Devil.' The nephew also wrote the official prequel to the book

First work of fiction I “voluntarily” checked out from the library as a teenager 26 years ago. It’s tone and brilliance has haunted me ever since. Great video. Thank you!

Being a bald man with glasses myself i sometimes watch these videos for fashion advice as you're always on point with the outfit choice ha ha. Another great video

That is not how I imagined Bram Stoker looked like.

And thanks to an Irishman and Irish folklore, Romania will be forever be associated with vampires. Thank you Bram Stoker for giving a new face on one of Romania's most feared leaders!

Ever since I watched the show Castlevania Ive been in love with the character Dracula. So happy you uploaded this!

Bram Stocker is probably the most influential story teller in recent History, think about how many vampire stories have been written and turned into films, all thanks to this Man, Thank You Bram we will never forget you.

Sometimes a vampire is just a vampire. It's possible that Bram just drew on stories he heard as a child and created a vampire tale without any real hidden meaning. Sometimes people see what they want to see in a painting or novel.

Could you work on Mary Shelley Frankenstein?

Never heard of vampires being afraid of roses before.

In mentioning the possibility that he may not have been straight, thank you for adding the possibility of being bi-sexual. It often gets overlooked.

Bram Stoker: **possibly a homosexual in the closet** Me: still a better love story than twilight

“My feet!” LOL Oh my goodness. I’m stealing that civil servant title for any ridiculously picayune squabble I may come across. “ I am Inspector of the Petty Sessions”

If you're looking to decode Dracula, look no further than Irving's negative reaction to the reading. He obviously saw himself in the egotistical Count and took that as Stoker's opinion of him. Friendship, over.

Ugh the "Jonathan Harker's diary" excerpts are still one of the coolest things I've ever read ❤

OK can we just mention that Simon must never sleep. In fact I think he is a vampire. After all he already has 3 other successful youtube channels and seems to make a video or two every day. And now he is starting a fourth. Seriously. Definitely a vampire.

I remember as a teenager, I got pretty excited when I first learned that not only was Stoker Irish just like me but his birthday was even the day after mine. Also, could you do videos on Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi if you haven't already, or even Lon Chaney Sr.?

Still a better love story than twilight

2:10 - Chapter 1 - Life before dracula 7:40 - Chapter 2 - True bromance 13:20 - Chapter 3 - Dracula (Origins) 17:20 - Chapter 4 - Decoding dracula 20:25 - Chapter 5 - Life after dracula

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I’ve read the book multiple times and it was one of the first chapter books I owned. I absolutely love it and greatly appreciate the story. Thank you so much for doing this video, I only recently found this channel, I came here from Business Blaze!

I've had the honour of meeting Bram Stoker's great-grandson and his Great-Grandnephew at a book signing event (Dracul by Dacre Stoker) and talk in my area about six months ago. They BOTH signed my copy, and I was more than excited to find out that the great-grandson of Bram Stoker LIVES in my area, as well!! 😱😍👍

I dunno, am I the only one who thinks Stoker was simply wrote a horror novel and people put their own interpretations on it?

Can you do CS Lewis

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Have you done a video on Alexandre Dumas? His father Alex Dumas is pretty interesting too.

A point of order. Florence also got buggered by Aleister Crowley! I thank you.

Always wondered why Dracula never drank wine but would drink absinthe.

Loved this I have un-abridged copies pre 1945 of both`Dracula` & `Lair of the white worm` prized possesions plus signed photo of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing,enjoyed this so much.

Well, that was fascinating- first read Dracula in my early teens and have read it many times since (now nearly 60 years old.) Each time I come away with something different that I didn't recall noticing before. Haven't read it in awhile now, but guess I'm due! Btw, looks like Stephen Frye is actually Oscar Wilde- how wonderfully fitting!

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This is by far the scariest book ever written. His prose is frightening.

I love watching your videos and all your channels. You are so well spoken. Your enthusiasm, excitement, and sense of humor on the ironies is entertaining. Please make some videos on Greek gods and Greek playwrights especially Hades.

So Irving was a psychological/emotional vampire?

Absolutely love these videos! Make learning and understanding works of literature so accessible and enjoyable.

Just finished reading Barbara Belford’s brilliant biography on Bram Stoker. Absolutely ecstatic she gets a mention here! Now I can (re)read and appreciate Dracula in a whole new light!

Imagine if his descendants received royalties every time someone used Dracula in books or films...

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I read that Bram Stoker cast himself as both Dr. Van Helsing and as the sycophant Renfield in Dracula. Basically, he saw his relationship with Henry Irving going in both of these directions.

Man, brings me back to being 16 at South Station in Boston, buying my first paperback of this. Shocked my grandmother when i was reading that instead of playing the X Box my uncle bought my cousins and I. Apparently she forgot about how i ate up the LOTR trilogy, and had a beautiful hardcover copy of the Hobbit. Along with the fact that I read Poe to myself as a child to fall asleep. (the Masque of Red Death has been one of my favorite tales since I can remember)

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In Jospeh Valente’s book Dracula’s Crypt, he surmises that Dracula was also an allegory about nineteenth-century Ireland. As Stoker was a supporter of Irish Home Rule and witnessed first the scandal that brought down Charles Stuart Parnell, the English fear of Irish independence could certainly be read in the story. Also, Stoker came from an ancient Celtic family, so there is a great deal of influence working through the story as well.

Thanks to this video I just learned that I am related to Bram Stoker. Baucom use to be spelled Balcombe before we came to America. I've got a lot of digging to do now :)

Be sure to compare Stoker’s description of Dracula with photos of Henry Irving; the resemblance is striking.

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It's quite amusing to see, how different people see completely different interpretation in Stokers book, but most are talking about how he sees sexuality. I don't think anyone of them talked directly to Stoker, so it's assumable they just projected their own problems with sexuality into Stoker and his book. Dracula is an absolute masterpiece. I read it in german and later also in english for having the original. Both ways it's just great work.

So Dracula is about a vampire but it could be interpretet as many various ideas? Nice. I never thought about it that way. Thanks for this great video Mr. Simon and the crew.

Simon, your videos are always presented with such high quality and attention to detail, all the while remaining both entertaining and informative. Love your videos, keep up the good work!

When I was a kid, 1992 movie bram stoker dracula really scared me. And still is.

I've heard Stoker was also good friends with Doyle. Also, I heard he was in some secret club for wizards that Crowley was eventually kicked out of. I'm not too sure. You might want to fact check that.

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Fills in some of the gaps, used to regularly pass the house attributed to Stoker at the Crescent in Fairview beside Clontarf

I was given the Ladybird version of Dracula at five years old, the pictures terrified me and I wouldn’t sleep unless it was packed away in my trunk!

“There are darkness in life in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the lights of all lights” Bram Stoker

How could you leave out that Polidori was at the house during the stormy nights where Lord Byron inspired his guest, including Polidori and Mary Shelley to write horror stories? Of course, Shelley wrote Frankenstein and Polidori wrote the first vampire novel where the creature is not some unthinking monster but an aristocrat; it was loosely based on Lord Byron, himself. Also, if we have the trope of the dark and stormy nights in gothic fiction it may be because during that summer vacation in Switzerland there was thunder and lightning, almost every night. That was probably due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia that put up so much dust in the atmosphere that the weather changed fo a couple of months.

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I read a biography of Stoker last year. It went into more detail about speculation about his sexuality… Which is of course not entirely relevant beyond prurient curiosity The biographer speculated that Stoker was in love with Irving but it was a one-sided infatuation. He had a close relationship with Oscar Wilde‘s mother who had a kind of literary salon. He mostly knew Oscar Wilde through his mother, they had very little to do with each other in life. His grandmother stories of the cholera epidemic’s in Ireland I did his childhood and inspired is her writing imagination.

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Henry Irving resembles Christopher Lee quite a lot.

I loved this bio video. I just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me to listen to Dracula. I chose it as my next audiobook to listen to on Scribd. Scribd is an app like audible that lets you choose as many books as you want for one monthly price, much cheaper than Audible is. This video intrigued me and made me interested in Bram Stokers Dracula. So I'm going to listen to it next. Please Keep Up ALL the AMAZING Videos on not only this channel but all of your other channels as well!! Your entire team is doing a great job I look forward to all the videos you do. BTW I find Business Blaze hilarious and great! Its an excellent addition to the collection of other channels you do.

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I like the book the best out of any film adaptation based on it! The book is exciting and dark and it really puts you on the edge of your seat!

Great videos as always, but I found this one in particular to be really well written. I liked how it was framed

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Do a biographic on Mary Shelley and she how she come up with Frankenstein

We do not always need to dissect certain works and look for hidden meanings, messages or innuendos. Many times, just like in statistics, we can shape the evidence to appear how we would like it to appear. Would anyone be so daring to say that perhaps Dracula was just a great piece of literary horror with just the right amount of other ingredients to create an interest for all walks of life.?.?

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Very interesting review and history of Bram Stoker and his masterpiece, Dracula. Thanks for sharing.

Mentioning sessions so many times has me laughing as it means something very different in Ireland at the moment 😂😂😂

I think the lore and stories of vampires, specifically Dracula, has to be some of my favorite reading topics. Thanks for a great video!

Makes sense it’s a story that reflect his social and personal anxieties of his day. The female characters in the book tend to be sexist and are framed as being emotional and are only praised when passive, chased and repressed.

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Dracula: A masterpiece of gothic literature and THE book that reinvigorated the mythology of the Vampire! I feel sad for not reading it yet. But, I am almost done with the Stephen King classic, Pet Sematary at the moment! One book at a time right? Otherwise, I do hope you make a video on Neil Gaiman sometime. Anyways, thanks very much for this special video!

This is one of my most favorite novels. I even wrote a paper in college about it.

It feels really good to hear the word "bisexual" in historical contexts, as a lot of erasure occurs. Thanks so much! :)

Thank you so much for covering Bram Stoker!!

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